Wyatt Cemetery
Houston, Shelby County, Ohio

To reach the cemetery, from the town of Houston, drive west to State
Route 48, turn south for a mile on Rte 48 then left. The cemetery is about
midway between the intersection of Russia Versailles Road and Stillwater
Road.

Various attempts to find this old family burial have been unsuccessful.
I learned of this old lost cemetery when I was helping with the farming
for a neighbor. There were a few stones left in a fence row. In my
research on it I got some data from members of the Houston Congregational
Church and a Book of Shelby memorys. Also in records at the Ohio State
University.

According to neighboring residents, the plat has been plowed over
and the markers used in concrete projects. * Having knowledge of the
families farming and living in this section, and having helped them
at times with their farming, I learned that there was a cemetery in
the field just to the north of the old Floyd and Emma Ranch home.

Note:* this farm area is on a feeder creek to Nine Mile Creek which
feeds into Loramie Creek between Houston and Dawson. The 1840's and
into the 1850's was a period of a hog cholera outbreak which wiped out
most and the center third of Houston (closest to Nine Mile Creek) and
devastated many other communities along the Loramie watershed. Many
of these cemeteries had hurry up made markers of cement which disintegrated
with weathering.